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many chinese people eaten so well and been so vocal in demanding both safe, affordable food and an environment worth living in. china's leaders will need to show creativity and balance to meet those demands. the chinese people are watching to see that they do. >> ifill: mary kay magistad writes about exploding watermelons and other food safety challenges for chinese consumers in a blog post. we also have a slide-show of images from china's burgeoning meat industry. you can find both links on our web site. again, the major developments of the day. marine general john allen, the top commander in afghanistan, came under scrutiny over e-mails and messages with a florida woman who triggered the david petraeus probe. and congress returned to work in a lame-duck session. lawmakers faced the challenge of preventing major tax hikes and spending cuts in the new year. tonight's edition of "frontline" explores the polarizing issue of assisted suicide. kwame holman has the details. >> holman: in "the suicide plan," filmmakers uncover a surprisingly coordinated underground world of assisted suidide in ameri
many chinese people eaten so well and been so vocal in demanding both safe, affordable food and an environment worth living in. china's leaders will need to show creativity and balance to meet those demands. the chinese people are watching to see that they do. >> ifill: mary kay magistad writes about exploding watermelons and other food safety challenges for chinese consumers in a blog post. we also have a slide-show of images from china's burgeoning meat industry. you can find both links...
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> i have no evidence at this point from what i have seen that classified information was disclosed. >> this week on "inside washington," a sex scandal at the top of the cia. the benghazi blame game. >> the american people deserve to know the facts. we cannot ever let this happen again. >> why would susan rice not get our vote? i don't trust her. >> defending susan rice. >> if senator mccain and senator graham and others want to go after somebody, they should go after me. >> there are no barriers to sitting down and beginning to work through this process. >> as the fiscal cliff loans, is there a deal in the works? mitt romney explains why he lost. >> the president's campaign focused on certain members of his base coalition, give them extraordinary financial gifts from the government, and worked very aggressively to turn them out to vote. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> well, i just don't know where to begin this week. d
do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> i have no evidence at this point from what i have seen that classified information was disclosed. >> this week on "inside washington," a sex scandal at the top of the cia. the benghazi blame game. >> the american people deserve to know the facts. we cannot ever let this happen again. >> why would susan rice not get our vote? i don't trust her. >>...
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. >> ( translated ): in the new environment, our party faces many severe challenges and there are many pressing problems within the party that need to be resolved. the problems among the party members and card res of corruption taking bribes, being out of touch with the people, undue emphasis on formalities and bureaucracy must be addressed with great effort:. >> ( translated ): -- >> reporter: we know only a little about xi. he's the son of a communist party hero. his daughter is at harvard and his wife is a famous singer. she holds a rank in the people's liberation army equivalent to major general but has disappeared from view since her husband was picked for the top. the other five on stage today are a conservative lot, reformers lost out in this reshuffle. this man studied economics in north korea. the man on the right has been in charge of propaganda and censorship. yesterday the politburo voted to include in their constitution outgoing president hu jintao's theory of scientific development. all in favor? anyone against? no one. no one. it's a show. important decisions like who wi
. >> ( translated ): in the new environment, our party faces many severe challenges and there are many pressing problems within the party that need to be resolved. the problems among the party members and card res of corruption taking bribes, being out of touch with the people, undue emphasis on formalities and bureaucracy must be addressed with great effort:. >> ( translated ): -- >> reporter: we know only a little about xi. he's the son of a communist party hero. his...
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right now, but 235 house republicans were also re-elected, so i don't know why the-- why the washington environment is a whole lot different. >> the other thing the president said was i'm not up for reelection again. so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you really risk tremendous market reactions and peril. i know you talked about david petraeus, and the whole foreign policy issue last night on charlie, martha, but do you-- let me ask you again, do you take seriously the notion that john kerry could be defense secretary? >> i think that was a trial balloon. >> you do? >> i 19, clearly both of those stories were trial balloons. president obama, obviously, took it a little further, quite a bit further today talking about susan rice. it was no longer a trial balloon. but i think john kerry-- you know, is that a consolation prize? i think he's probably always wanted to be secre
right now, but 235 house republicans were also re-elected, so i don't know why the-- why the washington environment is a whole lot different. >> the other thing the president said was i'm not up for reelection again. so they look ahead, they see 2010 and think if taxes do go up for the middle class, it will be john boehner, and the republicans to take the blame. >> well, that may be but who is it going to play that kind of bluffing game with the debt ceiling because that's when you...
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qc hold for a new environment or food, clothing, shelter? we do. growing ideas. >> the next time you hear them say don't worry about it, we will get a few other people to pay their fair share, watch out, middle-class, the taxpayer is coming to you. >> the vice-presidential debate. >> folks, use your common sense. will you do you trust on this? a man who introduced a bill that will raise 8 $6,400 a year, knowing it and passing it and romney saying he will sign it, or me and the president? >> did joe biden stop the wave?omney >> you are going to win? >> yes fauquier >> also, the ghazi. over ben doe >> and affirmative action returns to the supreme court. >> i hope the court rules that a student's race and ethnicity should not be considered when applying to the university of texas. >> an instant cnn poll gave the vice eventual debate to all rain. and instead cbs poll gave the debate to paujoe biden. >> falling exchange on medicare and social security. >> medicare and social zuccotti did so much for my own family. we will not jeopardize this program, bu
qc hold for a new environment or food, clothing, shelter? we do. growing ideas. >> the next time you hear them say don't worry about it, we will get a few other people to pay their fair share, watch out, middle-class, the taxpayer is coming to you. >> the vice-presidential debate. >> folks, use your common sense. will you do you trust on this? a man who introduced a bill that will raise 8 $6,400 a year, knowing it and passing it and romney saying he will sign it, or me and the...
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> this week on "inside washington," mitt romney at's august surprise. >> i am delighted to have picked as my running mate paul ryan, a great leader. >> suddenly it is all about paul ryan and medicare. >> governor romney and i will protect and strengthen medicare for seniors. >> they want to turn medicare into a voucher program. >> it is is getting nasty out there. >> unchain wall street. they are going to put y'all back in chains. >> this is what an angry and desperate presidency looks like. >> i don't think there's anything courageous about asking for sacrifice from those who can least afford it. >> it is and not hope, it is not change. it is partisanship. "tim brant's college football previ captioned by the national captioning institute -- >> washington loves a good fight, at least to those of us here on "inside washington" do, and now we have one tree in one corner, the president of the united states, slim, trim, and ready to rumble. any new challenger
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so it does create an environment where the senate is just defined by starker, brighter, more partisan lines. >> when barack obama ran in 2008, he often talked about his relationship with senator lugar. and he leveraged it to prove he was bipartisan. and that was valuable for democrats. gwen: won indiana by 14,000 votes or something. >> exactly. that cost dick lugar. what does that tell us about the transactional value or lack of value with bipartisanship? >> well, it's funny. because mourdock, who richard -- mourdock now the nominee, he said that he actually campaigned against bipartisanship. he said i think it's a problem with washington is there's too much bipartisanship. which is sort of funny if you spend time in washington. you never -- you don't really hear that complaint very often. and he said his definition of bipartisanship is democrats agreeing with republicans. so he is sort of campaigning at the force of partisanship in washington and saying he will come here and be a -- tried and true conservative beliefs. gwen: he has to survive the general election before that happens.
so it does create an environment where the senate is just defined by starker, brighter, more partisan lines. >> when barack obama ran in 2008, he often talked about his relationship with senator lugar. and he leveraged it to prove he was bipartisan. and that was valuable for democrats. gwen: won indiana by 14,000 votes or something. >> exactly. that cost dick lugar. what does that tell us about the transactional value or lack of value with bipartisanship? >> well, it's funny....
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contrary" provided by the cornell douglas foundaonti committed to c encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation, watershed protection, and eliminating harmful chemil.ca additional funding provide by the colecom foundation, the wallace genetic foundation, and by the charles a.frua foundation. this week on "to th to the con y p. >> first, mitt romney's surge with women voters. then tragedy mars the first u.n. international day of the girl child. behind the headlines, wage theft, a little known problem that costs mainly women workers millions of dollars. at hello, i'm bonnie erbe. welcome to "to the contrary," a discussion of news and social trends from diverse perspectives. up first, pushing for women. will a more moderate mitt appeal to women voters? that is what the gop presidential hopeful is counting on as he moves more towardthe middle on women's rights. romney generated buzz this week over remarks he made about abortion, saying access to abortion is not on his legislative agenda. regardless, he added he would defund planned parenthood and prevent use of federal funds for
contrary" provided by the cornell douglas foundaonti committed to c encouraging stewardship of the environment, land conservation, watershed protection, and eliminating harmful chemil.ca additional funding provide by the colecom foundation, the wallace genetic foundation, and by the charles a.frua foundation. this week on "to th to the con y p. >> first, mitt romney's surge with women voters. then tragedy mars the first u.n. international day of the girl child. behind the...
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and we didn't talk about the effects of the ways we would get it on either the environment or, more broadly, on the globe. >> nonetheless, did the debates matter? do you think they've had an impact on the campaign? >> yes, and what we, what we saw across the debates is what we expected to see. we saw learning about those issues that were addressed. more accurate placement of candidates on the areas in which they differ. what we didn't see is more accurate placement on areas that they're similar because the news never stresses areas in which they're similar. but nonetheless, we've seen learning across the debates in our annenberg survey. >> but my sense is that when there is no penalty for lying or as jonathan swift says in the last part of "gulliver's", for saying the thing that is not so, that the things one learns about what people say are completely irrelevant. governor romney has changed his position on just about everything throughout his entire career. and that, i believe, bedevils the fact checkers who will say, "well, his official position is this, but then he did that. so it's hard
and we didn't talk about the effects of the ways we would get it on either the environment or, more broadly, on the globe. >> nonetheless, did the debates matter? do you think they've had an impact on the campaign? >> yes, and what we, what we saw across the debates is what we expected to see. we saw learning about those issues that were addressed. more accurate placement of candidates on the areas in which they differ. what we didn't see is more accurate placement on areas that...
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did you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser. growing ideas. >> mr. president, you are entitled to your own airplane and house, but not to your own facts. >> the first presidential debate, around 12 mitt romney. >> it is arithmetic. >> where was the president's fastball? >> i felt he should of been more aggressive. >> join the president on them stage, the beleaguered middle class. >> the middle class are getting crushed. >> that is what joe biden says. >> how they can justify raising taxes on the middle-class who have been buried the last four years. >> to joe biden. no, don't boo. he is the best thing we have got going, guys. >> it was the biggest brownson's encore. i read that in a column friday morning. on the cover 25th, 1415 on christmas day at parkton corps, king henry led his army to victory. charles the six was mentally incapacitated at the time of battle. that is as far as i want to take that one. agincourt? >> yes, you were there, as i recall. you covered it for the daily frog. it was quite a rout. when i wrote the colu
did you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser. growing ideas. >> mr. president, you are entitled to your own airplane and house, but not to your own facts. >> the first presidential debate, around 12 mitt romney. >> it is arithmetic. >> where was the president's fastball? >> i felt he should of been more aggressive. >> join the president on them stage, the beleaguered middle class. >> the middle class are...
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and this was a made-for-television event and made-for-television disaster and it operated in the same environment as the whole next week is supposed to be about. >> it is remarkable that two weeks have gone by since paul ryan was picked as the nominee and republicans have talked about anything but the economy and barack obama. gwen: and speaking of distractions and taking the topic off point again, today, the nominee, mitt romney, was campaigning in his home state of michigan and had this to say in a little joke before a home-town crowd. >> i love being home in this place where ann and i were raised, where both of us were born. ann was born at henry ford hospital. i was born at harper hospital. no one's ever asked to see my birth certificate. they know this was the place we were born and raised. [laughter] gwen: dan, what could he have been talking about? >> i have no idea. it's baffling, the birther issue, of course, has been out there among a number of republicans and for mitt romney on the friday before his convention is open to make any kind of reference to it is shocking, frankly. i don't kn
and this was a made-for-television event and made-for-television disaster and it operated in the same environment as the whole next week is supposed to be about. >> it is remarkable that two weeks have gone by since paul ryan was picked as the nominee and republicans have talked about anything but the economy and barack obama. gwen: and speaking of distractions and taking the topic off point again, today, the nominee, mitt romney, was campaigning in his home state of michigan and had this...
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do you see hope for the environment? food, clothing, shelter? we are weyerhaeuser. >> we have picked ourselves up. we have fought our way back. and we know in our hearts that for the united states of america, the best is yet to come. >> this week, the post-election rubio. -- rubio. >> i still wish i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. >> and where do we go from here? >> mr. president, we stand ready to work with you. >> the republicans take a look at their game plan. >> i think republicans have done a lousy job of reaching out to people of color. >> of good election for women in congress. >> an amazing campaign. let me be clear. i did not bill that. you build that. >> also a look at ballot initiatives, including legalizing pot. >> this is the best day of my life. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> it was a long, anxious night for a lot of people in this town and across the nation, but then the networks called ohio and you knew it was over. the president won 93% of af
do you see hope for the environment? food, clothing, shelter? we are weyerhaeuser. >> we have picked ourselves up. we have fought our way back. and we know in our hearts that for the united states of america, the best is yet to come. >> this week, the post-election rubio. -- rubio. >> i still wish i had been able to fulfill your hopes to lead the country in a different direction. >> and where do we go from here? >> mr. president, we stand ready to work with you....
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i didn't have the right environment or the facilities in scotland to try and fulfill my dreams. >> rose: what were your dreams? >> well, i wanted to get into the top hundred in the world at tennis. that was my main goal when i was around that age of 15 and i went to spain to do that they have the best track record at producing players at that level. >> rose: barcelona. >> yes, barcelona, yeah. >> rose: by 18 in your opinion the top what? >> i finished... in my 18th year i finished about around 60, 65 in the world. >> rose: and when were you in the top ten? >> when i was 20. i think when i was 19. i think i finished the year around 11 or so or something like that. >> rose: what's fascinating about that the this to me is understanding what young kids show in terms of potential so that somehow they emerge and they know you have the stuff to become a great champion. many don't and some do. you and also novak showed that. i mean, you played him when you were 11. what is it you show? you just are better than everybody around you when you're nine, ten, 11? you show potential to move to the nex
i didn't have the right environment or the facilities in scotland to try and fulfill my dreams. >> rose: what were your dreams? >> well, i wanted to get into the top hundred in the world at tennis. that was my main goal when i was around that age of 15 and i went to spain to do that they have the best track record at producing players at that level. >> rose: barcelona. >> yes, barcelona, yeah. >> rose: by 18 in your opinion the top what? >> i finished... in...
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do you think of hope for the environment, or food, clothing, shelter? we do. weyerhaeuser, growing ideas. >> i think it's same-sex couples should be able to get married. >> this week on "inside washington," president obama gives the green light to same- sex marriage. >> marriage itself is the relationship between a man and a woman. >> the tea party claim another incumbent, richard lugar. >> hoosier republicans want to see the united states senate taking a more conservative track. >> even high school is not off limits. >> i did some stupid things in high school, and if i hurt anyone, i am sorry and apologize for it. >> lawmakers still at it. voters in europe trigger a political tsunami. >> money flows like water, and if the dam breaks some place, it could flood, even here in america. captioned by the national captioning institute --www.ncicap.org-- >> vice president joe biden has acquired a reputation as a person afflicted with foot-in- mouth disease. on last sunday's "meet the press," he said that gay marriage is fine with him. >> i'm comfortable with the fact
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horrible thing to see, trying to cast shadows on the legitimacy of barack obama as president of theni e environment, the atmosphere of the next four years. >> ifill: i'm very curious about something that michael just mentioned which hasn't come up at all tonight which is mitt romney's religion. at the beginning of this election we thought this is going to be another test of america's ability to handle a new history-making moment. in this case a mormon, a member of the church of the latter-day saints and we never were able to really get a fix on whether that was a factor. do we know any more tonight? >> my sense is it was not -- and some of the credit goes to the obama campaign, even -- it was never raised even in a hidden way. and some credit goes to the american people. when romney talked about my church, my faith, my pastoral work, i thought they that played well. people responded well toll that. so we almost had a case where we had the president of the united states-- if romney had won-- the senate majority leader both being mormons. >> woodruff: if anything, i know from covering the conservativ
horrible thing to see, trying to cast shadows on the legitimacy of barack obama as president of theni e environment, the atmosphere of the next four years. >> ifill: i'm very curious about something that michael just mentioned which hasn't come up at all tonight which is mitt romney's religion. at the beginning of this election we thought this is going to be another test of america's ability to handle a new history-making moment. in this case a mormon, a member of the church of the...
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>> my sense is the most important way to create an environment of changes around creating community support for education. leadershipen's program where we have worked with 400 people to inform them about the importance of women having access to numerous seats, literacy, and forming part of the community in terms of investing in jobs and learning. >> keep up the good work in afghanistan. you're watching bbc world news america. the chinese also picked up the nobel prize, we will tell you what is between the pages that one such high praise. the human rights group amnesty international says millions of people in china are affected by forced evictions from their land. the debt ridden local authorities are increasingly seizing and selling off land. martin has more on this story from beijing. >> we are in a neighborhood of beijing slated for demolition. this used to be somebody's,, horrible strewn across the place. if you look to my right, you can see just beyond another empty home. what is surprising is that many people have chosen to stay. iav he seen an old man in the garden tending his vegetab
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we realize politicians don't create job but at least enhancing the environment that can create jobs. >> brown: do you think there's much enthusiasm? >> as a conservative i am much more enthusiastic about mitt romney than i was john mccain. i thought john mccain was just an extension of george bush. we had had enough of that. >> brown: but polls show enthusiasm remains a question mark here for mitt romney and for the president. he also has to worry about criticism from his left. people like duke economics professor william garretty who cites the almost one in five blacks out of work here and says the president simply hasn't done enough to help. >> that's pretty staggering actually. i mean, we're approaching the kinds of unemployment rates that existed in the united states at the height of the great depression. in the african-american community in north carolina. >> brown: he has decided to sit out the presidential vote >> i'm going to vote for the other offices on the ballot but i'm just not going to cast a vote for the presidency >> brown: you're not? no brown: you feel okay i feel o
we realize politicians don't create job but at least enhancing the environment that can create jobs. >> brown: do you think there's much enthusiasm? >> as a conservative i am much more enthusiastic about mitt romney than i was john mccain. i thought john mccain was just an extension of george bush. we had had enough of that. >> brown: but polls show enthusiasm remains a question mark here for mitt romney and for the president. he also has to worry about criticism from his...
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military budget, it is the capabilities to require to enable america freedom of action in a very contested environment in asia and elsewhere. >> woodruff: well, we're going to have to leave it there. we know the two candidates will be debating foreign policy on october 22. thank you both for being with us. >> woodruff: you can watch all of mitt romney's speech at v.m.i. today on our web site. >> brown: still to come hn the newshour, a deadly meningitis outbreak; the stem cell breakthrough; rothenburg, page, and kohut on the campaign; and salman rushdie on life under a death sentence. but first, the other news of the day. here's hari sreenivasan. >> sreenivasan: the investigation into the killing of the u.s. ambassador to libya took new turns today. cbs and abc news reported american officials in libya had asked for more security personnel, but the state department refused. meanwhile, libyan officials said president obama's top counterterror advisor, john brennan, will be in libya tomorrow to discuss the investigation. a warning from congress today: u.s. companies should stop doing business with china'
military budget, it is the capabilities to require to enable america freedom of action in a very contested environment in asia and elsewhere. >> woodruff: well, we're going to have to leave it there. we know the two candidates will be debating foreign policy on october 22. thank you both for being with us. >> woodruff: you can watch all of mitt romney's speech at v.m.i. today on our web site. >> brown: still to come hn the newshour, a deadly meningitis outbreak; the stem cell...
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on the stage, including the monitor and once that began, i don't know whether he could change that environment what i was frustrated is failure to use the synapse to pop out and sitting here talking you and ji jim lehr about the pbs funding which is okay and cute and fun to talk about, how about the auto industry, i rescued it and you would let it go bankrupt. >> i am if for equal pay of women, he didn't bring up things and let romney get by with some really distracting and really unclear, in fact, untrue statements about healthcare where he said i am for coverage for preexisting conditions, his people later on said he wasn't and he said, in fact, before that he never was really for covering preexisting conditions unless, you know, it is paid for, ahead of time during, you know, continuing coverage, and a couple of times in the last week he said things like well if you get sick we won't let you die in your apartment and get you to er and yet came on last night talking about a national health plan he had which he really doesn't have. i thought he got away with a lot of things showing sympathy f
on the stage, including the monitor and once that began, i don't know whether he could change that environment what i was frustrated is failure to use the synapse to pop out and sitting here talking you and ji jim lehr about the pbs funding which is okay and cute and fun to talk about, how about the auto industry, i rescued it and you would let it go bankrupt. >> i am if for equal pay of women, he didn't bring up things and let romney get by with some really distracting and really...
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that's not what a president running for election in a tough environment need to be. >> we've all been pretty critical of the president including me. so i'll now bat in the one caveat. mitt romney has problems with certain voters, and those problems are tied to policies that he has advocated for over the course of this campaign. if you go out the way obama campaign looks at the map in the world and you go to individual voter groups, demographics in specific swing states, many of those problems he has with hispanic voters, didn't do anything to solve his problems with hispanic voters. he didn't solve that problem. his problem with educated women voters. those issues didn't come up in this debate, he didn't solve any problems with those people. you think about just in terms of the battle ground states, there's going to be a tightening, we're seeing a tightening already. but the obama people, we have a swing state possible this morning from nbc and "wall street journal" president obama ahead by 8 points in ohio. it remains the case tomorrow as it was earlier today that president obama, i
that's not what a president running for election in a tough environment need to be. >> we've all been pretty critical of the president including me. so i'll now bat in the one caveat. mitt romney has problems with certain voters, and those problems are tied to policies that he has advocated for over the course of this campaign. if you go out the way obama campaign looks at the map in the world and you go to individual voter groups, demographics in specific swing states, many of those...
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number one, there's no evidence that the environment will be less diverse. and number two the antitrust laws are there to protect consumers of the end product. they're not there to protect competitors. so if someone can't compete with amazon because amazon has a good device and they offer a low price then they're just out of luck and apple and others will find a way to compete with amazon, the market is too big and there's too many players interested in getting into it. so the bottom line is that you cannot get together and fix prices in order to compete and that's what they did here, plain and simple. >> brown: becky anderson, what is it that you're worried about? what do you think might be the impact? specifically in your area on independent bookstores. what's the fallout? >> well, before the agency model took effect, amazon had at least 90% of the e-book market. so that's consider play monopoly of what's out there. after it took effect they might have 50%... between 50% and 60% of the market which shows that much of the market has gone to a diverse amount
number one, there's no evidence that the environment will be less diverse. and number two the antitrust laws are there to protect consumers of the end product. they're not there to protect competitors. so if someone can't compete with amazon because amazon has a good device and they offer a low price then they're just out of luck and apple and others will find a way to compete with amazon, the market is too big and there's too many players interested in getting into it. so the bottom line is...
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concern as a citizen, whether it's deficit reduction or medicare and medicaid and social security or the environment, global climate change, it all comes back to how we receive information. and that this issue you're addressing in this letter is at the heart of your -- >> bill, many of the viewers there are concerned about the growing gap, unequal distribution of wealth and income. they're concerned about health care, concerned about global warming, concerned about women's rights, health, and many, many other issues. if you are concerned about those issues, you must be concerned about media and the increased concentration of ownership in the media. because unless we get ordinary people involved in that discussion. unless we make media relevant to the lives of ordinary people and not use it as a distraction, we are not going to resolve many of these serious crisis, global warming being one. there are scientists who will come on your show and say, "hey, forget everything else. if we don't get a handle on global warming, there's not going to be much less of this planet in a hundred years." do you see t
concern as a citizen, whether it's deficit reduction or medicare and medicaid and social security or the environment, global climate change, it all comes back to how we receive information. and that this issue you're addressing in this letter is at the heart of your -- >> bill, many of the viewers there are concerned about the growing gap, unequal distribution of wealth and income. they're concerned about health care, concerned about global warming, concerned about women's rights, health,...
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but other issues like education, the environment, national defense, those are-- issues, one side is more believable or more identified with that issue. if this campaign were about national missile system, a new missile system for america, for defense i don't care how strongly the democrats emphasized it, republicans come with a credibility and believability. on medicare, when you ask who is for preserving prorx tecting medicare who has been the champion of it, voters and especially over 65 in states like ohio, pennsylvania, florida and iowa which now are in play i think more, you know, identify with the democrats as being the champion. >> so he's saying democrats can get away with playing around with it more than help cans. >> that's definitely true. republicans have a credibility gap. if they can just fight this to a draw it will be a huge advantage for them. and not to go even further in the weeds and mark already took us, but-- the ryan budget did accept those cuts, mostly because once they are in the baseline and writing a budget it's hard to get them out. he did not take those cuts
but other issues like education, the environment, national defense, those are-- issues, one side is more believable or more identified with that issue. if this campaign were about national missile system, a new missile system for america, for defense i don't care how strongly the democrats emphasized it, republicans come with a credibility and believability. on medicare, when you ask who is for preserving prorx tecting medicare who has been the champion of it, voters and especially over 65 in...
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we need to fix the regulatory environment. we need to fix sequestation. there is probably bipartisan consensus about that. we need to fix immigration. there are a lot of things floating out there that we can do. you could list nine things we're going to do right away. >> woodruff: is either candidate talking about that? and i want to ask you both-- we got new jobs numbers today upon . unemployment rate went down, but only 96,000 jobs were created, mark. >> and jared bernstein was very candid. it's a weak jobs report. it's down from july. the irony is that there were more jobs created in july and the percentage went up, and fewer jobs created in august, and the percentage of unemployed went down. but the reality is it's bad news. it's bad news for the country. and it's bad news for the president. >> woodruff: mao did it change things? >> well, you know, it's part of 43 moks-- we keep hearing we shouldn't react to one jobs report. we've had 43. and to me the worst part about it is if we were moving uphill, then you could say one thing, but 2012 is worse tha
we need to fix the regulatory environment. we need to fix sequestation. there is probably bipartisan consensus about that. we need to fix immigration. there are a lot of things floating out there that we can do. you could list nine things we're going to do right away. >> woodruff: is either candidate talking about that? and i want to ask you both-- we got new jobs numbers today upon . unemployment rate went down, but only 96,000 jobs were created, mark. >> and jared bernstein was...
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the fights about medicare, environment and medicaid are the similar problem the president is having today. i think he will put the parallel, this is what i believe he'll do. the parallel political and policy battles and experiences that the two presidents have and the mission they have for the country, he was able to see his through with two terms. that's why president obama deserves a second. >> they are saying good things. >> this is all i've got left after that. i do not remember the impreachment was not exactly what i call a bipartisan process. there are votes against the budget and his first budget was absolute. they sent him two welfare bills. it was all about cuts and not about reforming the system. when he sent troops to kosovo to end human rights abuse in the genocide there, when the troops were in the air the republican congress voted against it. no president has seen that. this motion of white wash history that they were a bipartisan extending their hand, i find it galling that they would actually want to rewrite historiment everything, they defeated a kid's tobacco bill that p
the fights about medicare, environment and medicaid are the similar problem the president is having today. i think he will put the parallel, this is what i believe he'll do. the parallel political and policy battles and experiences that the two presidents have and the mission they have for the country, he was able to see his through with two terms. that's why president obama deserves a second. >> they are saying good things. >> this is all i've got left after that. i do not remember...
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dealing withl conflict situations and something incredibly valuable when you have high-risk security environments where it's difficult to get researchers on the ground to corroborate reports of human rights violations is to rely on essentially ways to circumvent those information blackouts, such as satellite imagery. so in the case of aleppo, we were very curious exactly what the state of play was with regard to military hardware, positions of particular units, pro-assad units and other units, both sides and to take a baseline of what the city looked like in order to assess risk. >> warner: both sides have been accused of human rights violations in this conflict. the syrian military much more than the rebels what are you looking for in that regard? >> we're looking to make sure all actors protect civilians, to minimize civilian casualties and non-"commitment 2012" bat tonights and that includes those who have been captured on either side who are no longer taking part in hostilities. >> warner: let's take a look at the satellite images you released and susan i would like you to tell us what we're
dealing withl conflict situations and something incredibly valuable when you have high-risk security environments where it's difficult to get researchers on the ground to corroborate reports of human rights violations is to rely on essentially ways to circumvent those information blackouts, such as satellite imagery. so in the case of aleppo, we were very curious exactly what the state of play was with regard to military hardware, positions of particular units, pro-assad units and other units,...
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we're not going to make it without the environment. new orleans is so extreme on the edge of the river. education is more of an open book. 80% of the kids are now in charter schools. the experiment that is going on around the country is more extreme. i think the jury is still out on the charter schools, frankly. there is a lot of negative and some positives. tavis: daniel wolff has written a wonderful book. on september 20, you will see the premier of the academy award winning jonathon demme directed documentary. ms. parker is a character. i say that in the kindest way. you'll want to see this on a september 20. good to have you on the program. that is our show for tonight. i will see you back next time. thank you for watching. keep the faith. >> for more information on today's show, visit tavis smiley at pbs.org. tavis: hi, i'm tavis smiley. join me next time for a conversation with david brody. plus melanie lynskey. >> there is a saying that dr. king had that said there is always the right time to do the right thing. i try to live my
we're not going to make it without the environment. new orleans is so extreme on the edge of the river. education is more of an open book. 80% of the kids are now in charter schools. the experiment that is going on around the country is more extreme. i think the jury is still out on the charter schools, frankly. there is a lot of negative and some positives. tavis: daniel wolff has written a wonderful book. on september 20, you will see the premier of the academy award winning jonathon demme...
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rural focus in the early or midpart of the novel to generationly maybe a more of a focus on the urban environment in the latest stages of the novel. but in so doing he demonstrates a little bit less familiarity with that slice of contemporary chinese life and i think these younger writers are probably more in their -- you might say native habitat when they're writing about these. >> brown: xiao qiang, a brief word on that? how this fits into contemporary writing? >> i think it's very interesting to see how the chinese state media lauded about his receiving this award. in contrast with the former two chinese, as you mentioned, that one is gao xingjian, in exile, the government doesn't approve his politics and the other is liu jiabao. mo yan is his pen name. and his pen name means "don't speak q. sots there's a popular internet joke saying "who is the first chinese winner of a nobel prize? don't speak. who's the second chinese nobel piece prize winner? don't speak. who's the third one? don't speak. this one is mo yan. but two other people are being banned and the chinese official media and chinese
rural focus in the early or midpart of the novel to generationly maybe a more of a focus on the urban environment in the latest stages of the novel. but in so doing he demonstrates a little bit less familiarity with that slice of contemporary chinese life and i think these younger writers are probably more in their -- you might say native habitat when they're writing about these. >> brown: xiao qiang, a brief word on that? how this fits into contemporary writing? >> i think it's...
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>> senator, i'm fascinated on the environment. i'm a lot older than you are and i've been in washington a lot longer. but the great lakes were dying. three-quarters of the rivers and streams in the united states were unswimmable, unfishable. air was making people sick. and a republican president, richard nixon, created the environmental protection agency with a democratic congress. and within one generation, four-fifths of the rivers and streams in the united states were swimmable and fishable. the imlaix, the greatest freshwater resource any people have ever been blessed with were dying. they've been reinvigorated, spiritually, economically, recreationally. that was because water flowed across statelines and air blows across state lines. there was a federal role. you don't see that federal role? >> well, i think what the e.p.a. did for those first 40 years made a huge difference, a huge improvement. now we're at a point where to get any small incremental improvement, the costs are so extensive and then the e.p.a. continues to und
>> senator, i'm fascinated on the environment. i'm a lot older than you are and i've been in washington a lot longer. but the great lakes were dying. three-quarters of the rivers and streams in the united states were unswimmable, unfishable. air was making people sick. and a republican president, richard nixon, created the environmental protection agency with a democratic congress. and within one generation, four-fifths of the rivers and streams in the united states were swimmable and...
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. >> the political environment's changed, one t is become more of a contact sport than ever. i mean to claim that somehow this guy is not a hasier is outrage us. and it's petty politics. and it's kind of the silliness that we're talking about. this is what politics in america has evolved to. this kind of stuff. we should be talking about serious issues. he is a serious leader for serious times. we should be grateful for that. >> ifill: lugar was not the only target. utah's orrin hatch spent millions of dollars to diffuse an intraparty challenge in utah. now the bulk of the party's anti-incumbency movement is focused on indiana. >> one. mistakes of lugar organization made was in 2006 when he didn't have a democratic opponent, which is pretty unprecedented north of the mason dixon line, i think that they felt like he had ascended firmly into statesmanhood. and felt like if he wanted one final term to finish up his business, there probably wouldn't be a problem. and then, of course, the tea party rises up and everything changed. >> ifill: so the senator who world leaders seek ou
. >> the political environment's changed, one t is become more of a contact sport than ever. i mean to claim that somehow this guy is not a hasier is outrage us. and it's petty politics. and it's kind of the silliness that we're talking about. this is what politics in america has evolved to. this kind of stuff. we should be talking about serious issues. he is a serious leader for serious times. we should be grateful for that. >> ifill: lugar was not the only target. utah's orrin...
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skills >> ( translated ): when i first came here i wasn't comfortable, i wasn't ready for the learning environment so i quit and went back out on the street to make money. now, the most difficult part is to try and keep myself away from drugs, from my friends on the street. but i try not to go. i can quit drugs, i can stay away from those friends. i don't want to let my parents down again or my very good friends here at the program. >> reporter: if he finishes, he'lhave several options to develop marketable skills. friends offers training in everything from automotive mechanics to construction skills to hairdressing. even after four attempts, marot says there is a good chance sothea will eventually succeed. >> we haven't found really any child that was a lost cause if you want. we worked very hard with many children for a long time to be able to... to get them to a level that was required but we were always reasonably successful. >> reporter: friends also started and runs three of phnom penh's finest restaurants, training grounds for students and a source of income for its programs. 17-year-old ku
skills >> ( translated ): when i first came here i wasn't comfortable, i wasn't ready for the learning environment so i quit and went back out on the street to make money. now, the most difficult part is to try and keep myself away from drugs, from my friends on the street. but i try not to go. i can quit drugs, i can stay away from those friends. i don't want to let my parents down again or my very good friends here at the program. >> reporter: if he finishes, he'lhave several...
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time talking about the importance of tactics or what happened and the fundamentals of the political environment and the dynamics of the country for a reelection of a president is much more important than this the dynamics of ohio and the economy in ohio has more to do with how the president is doing in ohio than any tactical thing either campaign has done and that dynamic is set. the other dynamic that's pretty much set and something that i kept telling people to look at in 2004 was the president's job approval number and the president's job approval number today is in two polls that came out today, 51% and 52%. no president has lost reelection when their job approval number has been over 50%. >> rose: but wasn't it below 50% two months ago. >> yeah, it was for a long time. >> pretty close. >> it's now slightly above where george w. bush's was when he was reelected. >> and that dynamic is more important than any tactic. >> rose: albert? >> charlie, there have been two other elements that have enabled obama to have a better close than romney. one was the storm. sandy. there's no question that ha
time talking about the importance of tactics or what happened and the fundamentals of the political environment and the dynamics of the country for a reelection of a president is much more important than this the dynamics of ohio and the economy in ohio has more to do with how the president is doing in ohio than any tactical thing either campaign has done and that dynamic is set. the other dynamic that's pretty much set and something that i kept telling people to look at in 2004 was the...
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give them a tax system that is fair and education provide an environment where they can flourish. >> maybe it's because he never has forgotten where he came from and has not lost sight where we need to go. >> he has such a sense of justice and fairness to him and i think that makes him fight harder for people. >> maybe it's because he is known loss and pain in his own life that he is not blind to the suffering of others. >> i think that is one of the things that joe has that a lot of people don't have, the sense of intuition. he intuitively feels someone's pain. he did know what it feels like to lose a wife and then the unspeakable, to lose a child. and i think that's why people connect with him. >> he has always shown he has been a man that supports the working class. >> he cares for me. is here for us and is listening. >> roger, hey, roger this is jo. this is for you. >> announcer: maybe it's because he never doubted the american people and never doubted america's future. >> it's never been a safe bet to bet against america. i know i get criticized for saying that to foreign leader
give them a tax system that is fair and education provide an environment where they can flourish. >> maybe it's because he never has forgotten where he came from and has not lost sight where we need to go. >> he has such a sense of justice and fairness to him and i think that makes him fight harder for people. >> maybe it's because he is known loss and pain in his own life that he is not blind to the suffering of others. >> i think that is one of the things that joe has...
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i'm sclling through and there need to be stricter lawyersnd ag gu onlare tito help the environment. is that a good enough snapshot for you to get an idea where someone stands? statistically it's enough questions to replicate what we see with a larger set of questions from what we are trying to do here. which is basically, place people in space relative to a number of markers from our surveys. be they political party or once i once i finish taking the quiz it ends up stacking that individual on coinuum. so what is interesting to meñr s that you can see where someone issue up on economic sversuocialer issues. perhaps they areci soally liberal and economically more conservative. and is that how the rest of the country actually is. >> it's the way it is. people the rare individual who is conservative all across the board or liberal across the board. on social issues it's one way and economic issues it's another to some degree at least. and this gives the quiz taker an opportunity to place himself in the context of the public ourni sonveys at we s do. >> and what islso interesting coars
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we can develop them sensitively, we can develop them securing our environment but we must develop them. [ applause ] and we have the ingenuity to develop alternative sources of energy, too. but most importantly, mitt romney and paul ryan will rebuild the foundation of our strength, the american economy. stimulating private sector growth and stimulating small business entrepreneurship. [ applause ] when the world looks at us today, they see an american government that cannot live within its means. they see in american government that continues to borrow money, that will mortgage the future of generations to come. the world knows that when a nation loses control of its finances, it eventually loses control of its destiny. that is not the america that has inspired people to follow our lead. [ applause ] after all, when the world looks to america they look to us because we are the most successful economic and political experiment in human history. that is the true basis of america exceptionalism. you see the efforts of america what really unites us is not nationality or ethnicity or religi
we can develop them sensitively, we can develop them securing our environment but we must develop them. [ applause ] and we have the ingenuity to develop alternative sources of energy, too. but most importantly, mitt romney and paul ryan will rebuild the foundation of our strength, the american economy. stimulating private sector growth and stimulating small business entrepreneurship. [ applause ] when the world looks at us today, they see an american government that cannot live within its...
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and in that kind of environment where my energy, skills and talents could be channeled with others toward the public good. i could tell by our conversation that the governor was in office, not for himself or to promote himself, but for the people. [cheers and applause] my initial size-up of the man held true. during the four years i served in his cabinet, i saw him up close and personal manyevnÑ tim. and he always drove us in his administration to make government better for the people. one area where he made a positive difference is in improving the representation of women in senior positions in massachusetts state government. before governor romney took office in 2003, women were significantly underrepresented among top roles in government. with 52% of the population, but just 30% of the jobs. over the next two-and-a-half years, 42% of the new appointments made by governor romney were women. [cheers and applause] in fact, based on a survey by the state university of new york, massachusetts was ranked first in percentage of women holding top state positions. [cheers and applause] this le
and in that kind of environment where my energy, skills and talents could be channeled with others toward the public good. i could tell by our conversation that the governor was in office, not for himself or to promote himself, but for the people. [cheers and applause] my initial size-up of the man held true. during the four years i served in his cabinet, i saw him up close and personal manyevnÑ tim. and he always drove us in his administration to make government better for the people. one...